Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Mar 2016 16:46:12 +0100 | From | Wolfram Sang <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 05/14] i2c-octeon: Make adapter timeout tunable |
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On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 04:10:48PM +0100, Jan Glauber wrote: > From: Peter Swain <pswain@cavium.com> > > Make the i2c adapter timeout a module parameter to allow upper-level > target device drivers to retry with their own logic before their own > timeouts abort operations. > > For example, at24 eeprom driver retries for 25ms when -EAGAIN > indicates that an eeprom has gone unresponsive while committing > a newly written page (5ms on typical devices). > > Signed-off-by: Peter Swain <pswain@cavium.com> > Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jglauber@cavium.com>
i2c-dev has IOCTLs for timeout and retries. Can't you use those?
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